Marital resemblance for obsessive-compulsive, anxious and depressive symptoms in a population-based sample

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1731-1740

  Van Grootheest, D S ^a,b   Van Den Berg, S M ^a,c   Cath, D C ^b   Willemsen, G ^a   Boomsma, D I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Assortative mating; Depression; Marital resemblance; OCD

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PARENT; PERSONALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPOUSE; TWINS;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MARRIAGE; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TWINS;

EID: 57349185621     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291708003024     Document Type: Article

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